As Long As You Need: Permission to Grieve by J. S. Park

 

Losing a loved one is never easy for anyone. In the past month, five people I know have passed away. The last one was the unexpected loss of a classmate. I have to say, I am sad in my heart and soul right now with all of these losses.

J. S. Park has a new book out that talks about grieving from a chaplain who has counseled people in all walks of life about all types of deaths. He writes a book with solid practical advice and encouragement as you walk the grieving road ahead of you.

In As Long As You Need by J.S. Park, he offers an honest and unrushed engagement with grief, decoding four types of grieving–spiritual, mental, physical, and relational–and offering compassionate self-care and soul-care along the way.

In his nearly decade of service as a chaplain at a major hospital with a designated level one trauma center J.S. understands firsthand how rushing or suppressing grief only adds a suffocating layer of pain on top of the original wound.

(From the Back of the book) From his unique window into the stories of the ill, injured, dying, and their families, J.S. offers you:

  • Permission to dismantle all too common myths about grief and replace them with a guilt-free and unrushed approach to navigating your losses.

  • Encouragement for how entering grief, rather than avoiding it, leads to a hard but meaningful holding of your loss.

  • Empathy and hope if you are struggling with a crisis of faith in the midst of grief.

  • Recognition that grief spans a wide narrative of loss: loss of future, faith, mental health, worth, autonomy, connection, and loved ones.

  • Affirmation that your grief is your own. While the DNA of grief might be universal to the human condition, how you experience and process grief is unique to you.


From the ER to deliveries to deathbeds across every sort of illness and injury imaginable, J.S. Park has provided meaningful counseling for people from all walks of life and death. Now, through his book, he wants to assure you that, while everybody else might rush past your pain, grief is the voice that says, take as long as you need.

Link to You Tube Video with more information: https://youtu.be/PNc6TwqBwxM?si=Io-pLivrQuaDKfp8 

Purchase link:  https://bit.ly/3SYKmpb

 

I received a copy of this book from the publisher through Frontgate Media. All opinions within this review are my own.

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